The resources listed below provide a link to databases where you can search for your ancestors as they travelled from their native land during the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Tracking Slave Ships
Oceans of Kinfolk is a database, built by Kinfolkology Co-Founder Jennie K. Williams, of the coastwise traffic of enslaved people in the antebellum United States. The first edition of Oceans of Kinfolk includes the names of more than 63,000 enslaved men, women and children trafficked to New Orleans from domestic ports between 1818 and 1860. Dr. Williams is currently revising that edition in order to add missing transcriptions, correct previous mistakes, and insert images of the original documents into the manifest. This process requires careful, manual review of every single record, and so it will take some time to complete. Once each record is reviewed, it is added to this page, the Second Edition of Oceans of Kinfolk.
Explore the Origins and Forced Relocations of Enslaved Africans Across the Atlantic World
The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.